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OpenAI expert Scott Aaronson on consciousness, quantum physics and AI safety | FULL INTERVIEW

Scott Aaronson delves into the nature of AI, and what threats it could pose, in this in-depth interview.

Is seeming to understand the same as understanding?

AI and ChatGPT have made extraordinary progress in recent years. But what are we to make of such progress? In this interview, world-renowned quantum computing expert Scott Aaronson discusses AI safety, quantum mechanics, and what makes human experience unique.

00:00 Introduction
00:22 Are we suffering from an optimistic induction in the case of AI?
04:53 What do you think about AI skepticism?
07:30 Is seeming to understand the same as understanding?
10:00 What differentiates humans from machines?
15:20 Why do you think quantum mechanics lies at the basis of human uniqueness?
19:19 Why continue developing AI, if it risks catastrophe?
25:12 What should our focus be, in AI safety?
27:32 Is there evidence that AI, in its current form, is trying to manipulate us?

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The surviving strands represent where the nutrients are available.

Like those who philosophise about wave/particle duality, you need to understand the difference between "represents" and "is".

Otherwise it will repeat the errors over and over again.

They do. Just like humans and computers.

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The surviving strands represent where the nutrients are available.

Like those who philosophise about wave/particle duality, you need to understand the difference between "represents" and "is".

Otherwise it will repeat the errors over and over again.

They do. Just like humans and computers.

Without representation, there is no virtualization, hence no consciousness.
The error rates are inversely correlated to the system's level of consciousness.

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The surviving strands represent where the nutrients are available. Representing something with something else is what virtualization does.

A Brain-Inspired Algorithm For Memory

In this video we will explore the concept of Hopfield networks ? a foundational model of associative memory that underlies many important ideas in neuroscience and machine learning, such as Boltzmann machines and Dense associative memory.
OUTLINE:
00:00 Introduction
02:17 Protein folding paradox
04:23 Energy definition
08:25 Hopfield network architecture
14:03 Inference
18:40 Learning
22:48 Limitations & Perspective
24:43 Shortform
25:54 Outro

References:
1) Downing, K.L., 2023. Gradient expectations: structure, origins, and synthesis of predictive neural networks. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Sam Altman gave out $108M for this experiment

Study on universal basic income (UBI) by OpenResearch. If you give people $1000/month, what happens?

0:00 What is UBI
1:48 Study design
3:20 Spending
4:05 Employment and education
7:02 Healthcare
10:20 Finance, planning, moving
11:23 Independence and starting a business
15:55 Family, relationships, mental health
18:16 Individual stories
19:12 Caveats and implications

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The SHOCKING Truth About UNIVERSAL Basic INCOME? | Dr Bret Weinstein
Some comments.

I was traveling around China 15 years ago. They were harvesting rice in Yunan province. Cut by hand, tied in bundles to dry, then threshed either by hand or small machines that they moved by hand around the fields. I asked why they don't just buy a combined harvester to save all that labour. The answer was that if they sat around doing nothing, they'd just cause trouble, so give them something to do that is useful.

[alancalverd]

If you want to buy a small rice harvester, a quick internet search shows that they are all made in China.

Problem with a combine harvester is the difficulty of moving it on poor roads, or harvesting uneven or steeply sloping fields.

One advantage of a UBI is a potential massive simplification of the tax system. Abolish all avoidable taxes like income tax, corporation tax, etc., increase VAT to about 40%, then give every adult about ?5000 per year to offset the VAT on essentials.

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Mutiny In China: Young Chinese are Threatening CCP's Rule

China's Youth Crisis: How Young Chinese are Threatening CCP's Rule?

It's important not to kill people's hope.

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The answer was that if they sat around doing nothing, they'd just cause trouble, so give them something to do that is useful.

A free market capitalism is supposed to tell what is needed the most by the society at any particular time and place by the cost of products and services there. It creates incentives to provide them, and the system becomes self organized.
But when the market isn't adequately free, there's a risk of market manipulation which causes inefficiency and ineffectiveness. They can lead to the collapse of the society.

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I'm an accelerationist

The obstacle is the way.

Some interesting comments.

Acceleration is the ultimate defense against those who want to slow it down to give them time to have complete control.

Same here acceleration and open source all the way. AI should be the largest democratizing event in history.

I describe myself as an accelerationist without being an anarchist. Pushing hard, but watching all the gauges and dials. Advancing, but also listening. Learning, but also reflecting. Not only to instill some caution, but also because I think doing so will lead to better AI.

"Science has provided the possibility of liberation for human beings from hard labor, but science itself is not a liberator. It creates means, not goals. Man should use [science] for reasonable goals. When the ideals of humanity are war and conquest, those tools become as dangerous as a razor in the hands of a child of three."   -Albert Einstein

"If you're swimming against the current, you're not paying attention to what's downstream." One of the best comments I've heard in favor of accelerationism.
Going slowly might be the safest or maybe even the best option, but it's just not going to happen. You can't put the AI genie back in the bottle, so we'd better understand and deal with the genie we have unleashed as rapidly as we can.

[alancalverd]

free market capitalism is supposed to tell what is needed the most by the society at any particular time and place by the cost of products and services there.

It isn't supposed to do anything, but to allow pretty much everything.
The need for pharmaceuticals and gasoline is pretty much the same in the USA and the UK, but drugs cost a hell of a lot more in the USA, and gasoline a hell of a lot less.

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It isn't supposed to do anything, but to allow pretty much everything.

Are theft, fraud, and scam included?

[alancalverd]

"Pretty much" excludes anything that might hurt the rich.

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"Pretty much" excludes anything that might hurt the rich.

It's not surprising that capitalism tends to increase economic inequality.

[alancalverd]

At last, you agree with the bloody obvious! Welcome to the real world, my friend!

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The $6.4T Stock Drop - Why Is Everything Down?

00:00 - The Global Stock Crash
02:06 - What's Causing the Drop?
02:50 - 1: Fed Rate Decision
04:39 - 2: Labour Data
06:49 - 3: Japanese Carry Trade
10:14 - How Markets Are Reacting
11:18 - Why You Shouldn't Try Timing the Crash
13:58 - Closing Thoughts

Global Stock Markets saw a sizeable drop over the past weekend, with $6.4T being wiped out. Today's video will explain the proposed reasons behind the sell-off.

The basic premise of investment is to spend excess resources now to generate more resources in the future.

[alancalverd]

Today's video will explain the proposed reasons behind the sell-off.

People sell stocks because they want to buy something else with the money, or because they think the price will decrease in the future. Bloody obvious.

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Today's video will explain the proposed reasons behind the sell-off.

People sell stocks because they want to buy something else with the money, or because they think the price will decrease in the future. Bloody obvious.

What's still questionable is how they need more money at the same time, or conclude that the price is going to drop.

[alancalverd]

Individual bank failure or company collapse will lead to specific sales as folk try to minimise their losses. The difference is that politicians (parasites) will bail out the banks (parasites) at the expense of the taxpayer, so only the poor suffer, whereas if a legitimate company fails, the shareholders (the rich) lose their money.

But major across-the-board shifts in stock market indices depend on a nebulous "confidence"  in the future of several very large industry sectors, which can be affected by crop failure, war, or the election of a vegetable to high office.

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Steelmanning the "Doomer" Argument: How Uncontrollable Super Intelligence (USI) could kill everyone

00:00 - Steelmanning the Doomer Argument
07:40 - Bioweapons
10:01 - Terminal Race Condition
13:12 - Window of Conflict
15:33 - Humanity as Moral Bad
18:10 - Machine Wars
20:29 - Cyberpunk Hellscape
21:48 - Conclusion & Recap